Fri, 9 January

RECIPE FOR A FRIDAY IN SEVENTEEN PARTS Ingredients: 1 camper van, weathered, rust showing through cream 1 gas cylinder (check seal twice) 1 Holden, awaiting parts 3 names you owe messages to 1 letter to Chris, half-folded Cable, sufficient length Mudflaps, 2 Drawer runners, sticking 1 Wellington sky, pewter, unrelenting Method: Do not preheat anything. Begin in the middle. Open all seventeen tasks simultaneously. Attempt to close one. Watch two more open. Wipe a surface. Find a wire beneath it. Text Marco back while holding a power switch in your other hand. Feel the small shock of trying to be in six places with one body. Let the day reduce. It will not thicken. It will not set. Serving suggestion: Eat standing up, between the digital and the deeply physical, grease under one thumbnail, autocorrect under the other. Yield: one day, used completely. Leftovers: none.